South Korea is not backing down, despite threats by terrorist scum to behead a kidnapped South Korean: S.Korea Vows to Send Iraq Troops Despite Kidnapping.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will go ahead with its plan to send 3,000 troops to help rebuild Iraq despite a threat from Iraqi militants to behead a South Korean hostage, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

The government would do its best to seek the release of 33-year-old businessman Kim Sun-il, who has been shown repeatedly on South Korean television pleading for his life in English, Vice Foreign Minister Choi Young-jin told reporters after a meeting of President Roh Moo-hyun’s National Security Council.

Choi said Kim, an Arabic graduate, was kidnapped in Falluja on June 17 — the day before South Korea announced where its troops would be deployed after months of agonizing because of security concerns and public opposition.

The group holding Kim said South Korea had 24 hours from Sunday night to withdraw its decision or they would behead him, Arabic television station Al Jazeera reported.

“I am telling you that there will be no change to our government’s basic spirit and position —- our plan to send troops to Iraq is for the support and reconstruction of Iraq,” Choi said. He chairs a task force set up to handle the crisis. The ministry asked Britain, China, Japan and Arab states to help.

Notice that even in South Korea the media are on the side of the enemy, doing their best to destroy support for the Iraq War by repeatedly broadcasting the video of Kim Sun-il pleading desperately for his life.

And al-Reuters once again refers to murderous kidnappers who butcher their innocent victims as “militants.” Aaarrrrggghhhh.